The TRAGIC Fate Of The NX-02 Columbia! - Star Trek Explained

Archer's recommendation for more weapons and the new captain be ready to use them always struck me as tragic. Archer was not a military man, he didnt want to be military, he didnt sign up for military. He wanted to be an explorer, a discoverer, and a pathfinder for humanity. Instead, he increasingly found himself in combat and sending people to die. He was jaded, angry, and depressed.

Not all the crew were killed in the vortices, one engineer survived, he was mid transport when the intense energy hit the ship, his transporter beam rematerialised in an alternate universe. A universe that was similar but diverged in the timeline from around the 1990s, he struggled with the loss of his crew mates, with never being able to return to his family or to his home, as he knew it. He almost gave up being enlisted but he pulled through, went into command, made a new home, new friends and one day became the captain of a ship called the Orville. It's 100% cannon

4:32 (in Pakled voice) “Books are good… books make your think strong… strong is good… read the books and become strong”. 😆

I just realized that Enterprise was the first shuttle, and Columbia was the second, Enterprise was retried after the test flights, while Columbia didn't make it to retirement....

The scene @ around 6:06 was from a Babylon 5 scramble scene, the uniforms give it away (huge fan of B5 here).

I always thought when Paramount made Star Trek: Beyond. They missed a way of further tying in that the Kelvin timeline (especially with Leonard Nimoy having passed away) as an offshoot of the Prime timeline. Instead of the Kelvin timeline's Enterprise 1701 crew finding the Franklin they could have found the Columbia instead.

History will never forget The NX-02 Columbia

you could not blame them for creation of borg,since the celliar created unknowingly a timeloop,leading always to the big issue that displaced that one city into the past,with just the right kind of psychopath on it. It had always to happen. which makes it even more tragic as it already is. (awesome story btw, my favorit borg origin story of all time)

The Caeliar created their own time loop that caused their own destruction as it were which lead to the creation of the Borg and the ultimate end of the Columbia. I'd hazard a guess that Columbia's presence probably wouldn't have changed things much, with the exception of the end of the Borg.

I always wondered what happened to the Columbia. I'd actually hoped that she'd survived the Romulan War to serve alongside the Enterprise post-war.

Finally Destiny gets a voice, deffo one that needs or needed to be a movie. It was the best "origin" story so far.

OK, New to the channel, and happy to be here! That was interesting and well told, AND I am happy to get the recommendation on a new trilogy. I have heard so many mixed things about this or that Star Trek book covering years of them, I just, er, wrote them off.

I smiled as soon as I heard the disclaimer. THIS was going to be a good video concerning the Columbia. 🖖Live long and prosper Trek Central. This is the video that I hit the subscribe button on...

I've never seen the Star trek Enterprise episodes with the Columbia, but I've read the 3 novels had the journey that Capt. Hernandez took with the Caeller and involving the Borg war.these were great novels.

The NX class was such a great theatrical design and addition to Trek. Loved it when the Enterprise & the Columbia vertreped Trip from Columbia back onto Enterprise.🖖🏽

Sad story. Need to get those books...thank you!

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I choose to ignore non-canon for some of these points. By tying Columbia to the creation and destruction of the Borg you make the Star Trek Galaxy WAY smaller whilst making the story unrealistically complicated. It's just kinda shoddy writing imo.

one of the most underrated nx class vessels, it never got to get its refit. The neat thing is that the nx refit was named after the Columbia after it was lost

Very cool to see coverage of some of that alternate pre-Kurtzman novel material. I remember reading the Destiny books years ago. Still have the all-in-one trilogy compilation they put out. It was a fun enough story. Always cool to see those characters as their lives continue on, like Captain Dax.